Word: pies
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With all of the excitement surrounding Apple's video-capable iPod, and the iTunes Music Store's $2 TV-show downloads, it was easy to miss the third, albeit smaller, piece of the pie: the iMac G5 with remote control...
...impulses in humanity's behavioral portfolio, ambition--that need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it--ought to be one of the most democratically distributed. Nature is a zero-sum game, after all. Every buffalo you kill for your family is one less for somebody else's; every acre of land you occupy elbows out somebody else. Given that, the need to get ahead ought to be hard-wired into all of us equally...
...where the great goal is to be seen on TV, regardless of talent. In Gore Verbinski’s new film, “The Weather Man,” the titular character is actually the target of such attacks, and the film itself might be read as a pie-in-the-face of our culture of celebrity and consumption. But what kind of pie? “The Weather Man” strives to be a pie of substance and succeeds to a certain degree; with its sense of humor and light social commentary, it certainly avoids the vapidity...
...Like most schemes for strengthening the nation's energy options, Schweitzer's is equal parts pie-in-the-sky, politically impractical, prohibitively expensive-and worthy of consideration. . "We don't respond to vision in this country. We respond to crisis," he says. "This is big thinking for a farm boy. But if not Montana, who? And if not now, when?"- Reported by Pat Dawson/Billings
...since then, the pie has only gotten bigger, the cost of living has only gotten higher, and this University has returned to its place as the penny-pinching kid on the block. It’s time to share a piece of the pie with the people in our community who need it most...